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Religious Education
RE Subject Leadership Essentials: Strategies and Knowledge
Led by Louisa Harrop
Overview
This course will be run over 2 online sessions, delegates should attend both sessions.
Session 1: RE Subject Leadership Essentials: Strategies and Knowledge
Join us for an engaging webinar session for RE leaders seeking creative classroom approaches and practical and varied activities to engage all learners and deepen their understanding through a religion and worldviews lens. Throughout the session, Louisa will provide current best practice, research and RE updates as well as the sharing of free resources to support and enhance the RE curriculum. Louisa will focus on the Sikhi and Buddhist worldviews providing a detailed overview of the key beliefs and practices and sharing ideas and resources to ensure meaningful opportunities to understand and engage with ‘the authentic voice’ celebrating the importance of lived experience in the RE curriculum. The session will also focus on assessment in RE and worldviews and will look at the assessment of both substantive and disciplinary knowledge in the RE curriculum. There will be practical examples of assessment activities supporting the balanced RE curriculum model which focuses on philosophy, theology and human social sciences as well as highlighting opportunities to develop and assess personal knowledge. It will consider why, how, when and what we assess in RE, as well as critically analysing what question we are seeking to answer when we assess RE.
Session 2: TBC
The second session will explore a different aspect of RE provision and will be agreed based on a needs assessment and feedback from session 1.
This course is being run over 2 sessions. Delegates are expected to ATTEND BOTH SESSIONS.
The sessions are taking place as follows:
SESSION 1: Tuesday 11th November 2025 13:00 – 16:00
SESSION 2: Wednesday 14th January 2026 09:00 – 12:00
By booking a place on this course, you will secure 1 place on each of the 2 sessions.
We will be using Zoom (online video conferencing software) to host this online event. If you have not used Zoom previously, you may need to download the Zoom software either to a laptop, PC, tablet or smartphone, prior to joining. When you have booked your place a link will be emailed to you within 48 hours of the webinar, with further instructions about how to join the event. Sessions are interactive so please ensure you have access to a microphone and camera to get the most out of this event.
Cost: £230 for non-subscribing schools
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Schools who subscribe to the Gateway Alliance Curriculum CPD Offer have FIVE FREE places on any of the TEN courses within the subscription.
Additional places can be purchased for £165 per person or schools can choose to purchase multiple subscriptions if they wish to take advantage of more places at a greater discount.
Costs will be incurred for schools that do not subscribe. Please see our terms for further details.
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If you have any queries please don’t hesitate to contact us on 02476 347697 or email: info@gatewayalliance.co.uk
Louisa Harrop
Louisa Harrop is an experienced educator and primary, middle and secondary RE specialist and adviser. She has taught RE and has been a SENDCO and part of the SLT team in a wide variety of different schools and contexts across the country. Louisa also worked for the Birmingham Diocese at Birmingham Cathedral as Head of Learning.
She holds a BA (Hons) in Theology from Durham University, a PGCE in secondary RE, and a Masters in Education from Cambridge University, where her research focused on the teacher-pupil relationship. Louisa also completed a BSc (Hons) in Psychology, with her thesis on children’s spiritual development and their visual understanding of God. In 2023, she joined the Lichfield Diocese as a Christian Distinctiveness Adviser (CDA), supporting schools for their SIAMS inspections.
Louisa regularly delivers engaging training on a wide range of subjects, including RE, collective worship, spirituality, justice, and meditation in schools. Passionate about social justice, she works with Christian Aid as a Global Neighbours assessor and has appeared on numerous podcasts. Louisa is also a published author and has co-authored a chapter titled “Social Justice and School Culture” in Tackling Disadvantage and Poverty (Bloomsbury, March 2025).
